Chandrayaan-3: India's Lunar Triumph
CHANDRAYAN 3 The Indian space research organization’s third lunar mission in the last 15 year. The spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off on 14 July 2023, 14:35 IST Propulsion module The propulsion module carries the lander and rover configuration to a 100 km lunar orbit. It is a box-like structure with a large solar panel mounted on one side. Lander Vikram (after the founder of ISRO)is a box shaped structure that carries various instruments for scientific analysis. It has 4 legs (unlike chandrayaan-2 which had 5 thrusters) which are responsible for a smooth landing and each of them can generate 800 Newtons of thrust. It is equipped with a Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV) to allow measuring attitude in 3 directions. The impact legs have been made stronger compared to Chandrayaan-2 and instrumentation redundancy has been improved. It will target a more precise 4 km x 4 km landing region based on images previously provided by OHRC on Chandrayaan-2. ISRO improved